The E. M. Forster Award is a $20,000 award given annually to an Irish or British writer to fund a period of travel in the United States. The award, named after the English novelist E. M. Forster, is administered by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Academy members nominate authors and winners are selected by a rotating committee.
Past winners
1972 – Frank Tuohy 1973 – Margaret Drabble 1974 – Paul Bailey 1975 – Seamus Heaney 1976 – Jon Stallworthy 1977 – David Cook 1979 – Bruce Chatwin 1982 – F. T. Prince 1984 – Humphrey Carpenter 1986 – Julian Barnes 1988 – Blake Morrison 1989 – A. N. Wilson 1990 – Jeanette Winterson 1991 – Alan Hollinghurst 1992 – Timothy Mo 1993 – Sean O'Brien 1994 – Janice Galloway 1995 – Colm Tóibín 1996 – Jim Crace 1997 – Glyn Maxwell 1998 – Kate Atkinson 1999 – Nick Hornby 2000 – Carol Ann Duffy 2001 – Marina Carr 2002 – Helen Simpson 2003 – Andrew O'Hagan 2004 – Robin Robertson 2005 – Dennis O'Driscoll 2006 – Geoff Dyer 2007 – Jez Butterworth 2008 – John Lanchester 2009 – Paul Farley 2010 – Dan Rhodes 2011 – Rachel Seiffert 2012 – David Mitchell 2013 – Adam Foulds 2014 – Sarah Hall 2015 – Adam Thirlwell 2016 – Sinéad Morrissey 2017 – Robert MacFarlane 2018 – Jon McGregor 2019 – Sally Rooney 2020 – Stephen Sexton 2022 – Sara Baume 2023 – Lucy Caldwell 2024 – Cal Flyn 2024 – Chetna Maroo 2025 – Johny Pitts 2026 – Sophie Ratcliffe
References
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